Top 25 Righteous Quotes of 70 - Page 2

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

Holy, Righteous, Dilemma

Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and grow exponentially throughout the eternities.

Julie B. Beck

Influence, Eternity, Righteous

The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.

Clement of Alexandria

Kings, Men, Righteous Man

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 104), 1895.

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

Plutarch

Bird, Righteous, Vulture

Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.

Martin Luther

Christ, Righteousness

It's more important to be righteous than to be right.

Lauryn Hill

Important, Righteous

Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.

Tullian Tchividjian

Needs, Christ, Righteousness

Twitter post from Sep 07, 2014

The self-righteous never apologize.

Leonard Ravenhill

Self, Apologizing, Righteous

There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.

Janet Morris

Responsibility, Battle, Unrighteousness

Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.7, Paradise Publishing

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Ezra Taft Benson

Impossible, Righteousness, Feels Right

Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Triumph, Eternal Love, Righteousness

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

Clarence Darrow

Righteous, Righteous Indignation, Indignation

Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.43, University of Chicago Press

God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.

J. I. Packer

Wrath, Unrighteousness, Reacting

J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.165, Hachette UK

God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.

Ramakrishna

Saint, Form, Righteous

Ramakrishna (1916). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna”

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

Jonathan Haidt

Empathy, Moral, Righteousness

Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.49, Vintage

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Righteous Man, Swamps

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.

Curtis Hutson

Spinning, Sun, Righteousness

Curtis Hutson (2000). “Salvation Crystal Clear”, p.39, Sword of the Lord Publishers

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

Nikolai Gogol

Literature, Righteous, Courses

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.

Maimonides

Men, Righteous Man, Charity

Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.135, Behrman House, Inc